france pushes to retake mali from islamist militants as bals rage across the country while the number of victims in the algerian hostage crisis triggered by the campaign rises to forty eight. president barack obama officially begins his second term in office with manny waiting to see if he will deliver on numerous promises on domestic and foreign issues. japan warrants china over its naval presence near a disputed islands in the east china sea as beijing slams washington stands on the territorial conflict.

it is eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t coming to live from moscow with me marina joshie twenty five more bodies have been found in the wake of the old jury and desert hostage crisis bringing the total number of confirmed victims to forty eight hours they have arrested five suspected attackers after earlier reports that all thirty two militants have been killed in the operation to and the siege matty foreign nationals still remain unaccounted for as the search for bodies in this hard gas plant facility continues al qaeda linked group claims they are behind the attack which they say as in revenge for french intervention in neighboring mali have only armed insurgents rate of the plant on wednesday was an initial jiri in response drawing criticism from western nations as r.t. is probably boyko now reports the campaign amalia which sparked the hostage

situation appears to be part of a french geo political agenda. we do always but it's terrorism was about to overwhelm this friendly country the terrorism that threatens not just all of west africa but also the entire world. he's vowed that france won't stop its intervention in mali until islamic extremism in the country is stamped out the military has announced that it's going to be sending more troops but the total set to exceed two hundred thousand a stated goal to help the government in bamako drive out his list insurgents before the francois alarms talk of freedom and democracy critics say the french government you see as a for the military offensive could be linked to other elements u.a.d. these fronts. many people say huge causes is a huge factor in its economy and it's something that not only mali but specifically niger and other neighboring parts where the tourist people reside. sits on top of

almost every single light bulb in france runs on electricity generated by nuclear power power relies on a steady flow of pure rainy i'm so you don't have to be a nuclear physicist to figure out that to keep all these bright lights on the french government depends on a steady flow of the precious natural resource but molly says micio learned is not about power or money so that you know security this has nothing to do with any political issue from a different time if we are defending a government or business interests which government which business it will prefer some have their suspicions nationally supported approach energy company. is to finish the second largest ukrainian mining plant in the world next to mali every year cars to exactly this year is going to be very cheap as

a third world very cheap. france is playing a very dangerous game and after the french military offensive reports that despite a deadly hostage crisis in algeria lightbox the beginning to go off in the heads of ordinary citizens what i. am for intervention if it is to fight terrorists but it's got to be for good reasons you might know that it's for raw materials that are in mali oil diamonds and gold already when there is a ground it is north of moped for they don't think about their workers well we definitely have made paris a huge target and from such a target for terrorism. at least but with the prospect of an untapped natural resources needed to keep from its eliminated political analysts say that foreign lands promise to stop playing big brother to former colonies is a game to be fulfilled any time seen playboy can see paris.

well the french defense minister said quote the goal is the total reconquest of mali let's now see if france can actually avoid a drawn out campaign as president francois hollande hopes for ad the start of the intervention now let's take a look at the map here as we can see the north of the country marked yellow is controlled by the local. rebels and local to regen surgeons and in fact the territories quite big it's almost as big as the territory of france now some of the weapons used by mali insurgence came from the french led overthrow of the khadafi regime in libya and friends itself airdrop arms to the libyan rebels while could obvious arsenal was also rate after his fall now there are concerns about libyan smugglers taking more arms through jury and into mali as you can also see on the map the road there is marked for you so all of this could make it difficult for france to fully secure the area in a short amount of time as it initially planned international relations professor

mark almond says the current situation in mali could lead to even further unrest across the region. we're getting a kind of an eye level to this problem to kind of backwash from that intervention because you have not through what's going to happen if you overthrow gadhafi but you don't actually put anything stable in its place quite culture spreads and similarly in mali the argument is that france is intervening to stop chaos but the risk must be from what we've seen with interventions before that the french intervention actually tend to send ripples of disorder further around the region and nobody seems to think that perhaps organized groups can come from somewhere other than mali it seems they came across the nearby libyan border libya is as i say central to all this problem because all the plot of weapons it's being produced by the collapse of the doctor but also for the complete failure to establish any kind of real state you have essentially all ords operating in different parts of

libya. and barack obama has officially began his second presidential term after being sworn an hour the white house later on monday you will spell out his vision for the next four years in his inaugural address but as our day is gone it's to can our reports manny are still waiting for him to tackle some of his broken promises. it's generally thought that his second term six u.s. president on walks those handcuffs that kept them from doing great things in their first term because they had to think about getting reelected all the time in the last four years we've heard many times president obama's hands are tied on this issue word that issue suppose this election has on tied his hands we don't have a crystal ball to tell you what he's going to do with those three presidential hands but we may already see signs of what is to come president obama steps into his second term carrying a heavy load of promises and want to cut the growth of jewish an advantage over the next ten years we've got to cut the deficit by four trillion dollars over the next

january so long as i'm commander in chief we will sustain the strangest military the world has ever known along with the pledge the threat of another devastating war in the middle east for four years president obama pushed to a great extent by israel. war with iran i will take no options off the tape and i mean what i say. that some believe the appointment of chuck hagel as defense secretary who is known to have been against the strike on iran may be a sign that the new obama administration will be less warmongering towards the bridge but two of the country's leading middle east experts orange convinced vision i would bet a certain amount of money we will hear the words all options are on the table come out of his come out of his mouth in addition to the point that we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who i think is someone who the israelis are just fine with who will continue what many of the covert programs of course are

drone program but many of the covert programs that would be under his under his authority at the cia that will be very much to israel's liking that will serve to undermine any attempts or any possibilities for. coming to terms of the islamic republic of iran john brennan has been in charge of president obama's targeted assassinations program. is a point of push the notorious war on terror in a different perspective and shows that it's far from over they want wars that will not redound against them at home politically so they don't want any more body bags they don't want more american troops killed to the extent they want to prevent that they want to have all the soldiers sitting in alexandria virginia or los angeles or whatever and running the brony that are killing people whether it's afghanistan or yemen or iran or you know were else however over the next four years the administration's reach will extend far beyond the middle east as it is said to continue its pivot to asia as well as building

a missile shield provocatively close to russia's borders last year and a hot mike moment president obama told russia's made me advantage that in his second term he'd be more flexible to discuss moscow close circuit. but it could turn out to be flexibility to words only president action. russia is still at it we opposed to it still sees it as as a flaw and we're just going to go ahead a little while president obama may have more control over foreign policy domestically there is a greater chance of his agenda getting bogged down in congress like gun control and the executive orders are useless and legislative proposals and i suspect will not pass in this country and i don't think it's in the offing and he were in the near future because we are a culture that is very deeply. in love with our guns in the last four years congress more than was attempted to sabotage the president on economic

issues including reaching a last minute deal as the country teetered on the edge of fiscal cliff presidents who have trouble with congress like to do international things because they have to worry about congress much less the president's actions so far have show little possibility that in the next four years he will be anymore. flexible on major foreign policy issue with as far as the mess that any of that whether he's never ending battle with congress will allow him to have significantly beyond inspiring speeches in washington and kind of. now what about given a second chance and change james lark a former hand of america's libertarian party believes and hope for it as futile i'm not sure that we should give president obama credit for united states. i think we would have seen the united states coming out of our economic system where he should regard was what president obama. was ever stimulus and b.

. in some ways efforts by the obama administration actually slowed down the american with respect to the foreign policy there are you hopeful signs all the nomination hate all of my but given the extent to which the obama administration still seems to be a program of using drones the hour it has on the various laws specifically the issue of being able to target and assassinate people sensibly around the world including the fears americans are not which it was sanguine about the prospects or or toward the united states being a country which traces its international we and also desires we respect the liberties of our own people. still however this hour here in r t damascus calls on the syrian opposition to lay down arms. freeze minister named sprit conditions for

talks while the opposition coalition seeks more backing to form a transitional government. and running for you or a wife later on we have the story of a half naked man who fell from a train in the middle of a frozen or is to manage to survive that's coming up after a short break. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives with. over sixty two percent and. this is a problem that. is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem certainly should be about a lot less a lot less suffering. more

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market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. welcome back it's good to have you with us here in our japan's foreign minister and he has lodged an official protest with china after three of the chips were sighted in the east china sea near disputed islands it comes after beijing slammed washington's position on the conflict urging it to be careful with its words and maintain peace in the region the u.s. war and its against any action that would undermine japanese administration of the territories at the same time secretary of state hillary clinton said it doesn't take a position on thought who has sovereignty over the islands china has sand ships and

planes to the area claiming it's exercising normal jurisdiction and its waters and airspace japan in turn said it may fire warning shots to foreign aircraft violating what it sees as its territory the founder of international strategic alliances george who says it's the us and japan who are ask the lady of attention please. the u.s. has this role of being the policeman around the world and spreading the military forces all around the world now can they afford it well that's a different question because it seems like in order to to meet their military budget which is ever increasing they're probably going to have to borrow the money and most likely they'll be borrowing the money from the chinese china has. been. asking japan to recognize and negotiate rather than rushing ratcheting up the tension of course japan and inviting electing is not going to help because

it is very well known. in this particular situation and the u.s. for its own strategic reason view japan as to prefer an ally and that's what contin agree this friction but i am not sure that i think cooler heads will. not go to war over these little specks of violence certainly china has never been. the aggressor in terms of in terms of these disputes. now here his opposition coalition is struggling to form an interim government they have the group has flown to qatar trying to secure promises of financial aid for at and rebel held areas the opposition as mauling the idea of a government's an exotic differences remaining over who should lead the new sakyapa show this as syria's foreign minister has called on us opponents to lay down arms and start and national dialogue the opposition groups though rejected earlier calls

for talks seeking more support from their western arab backers a stat political analyst earshot of the sas the syrian opposition is incapable of forging a united front. and. some elements are aware that there are in table. and. then in syria pre-election struggle and then you'll probably be wrong this will be big no the party in syria even the most in brother who is on their. own the news when you go for missions you also have in the home of times in the rebel forces in syria might be a preceding army they are named you have to be a new structure on the move there you heard from these moments right there are a grocer won't. be with insured means or board members of your position so

really we see the. whole mind of the opposition and there will be recounts d.c. the only thing they're hoping is that they were removed you know. how israel seems to be bringing up a generation of young patriots for money. as government awards bonuses to high school teachers who succeed and motivating students to do their army service for more and that had to r.t. dot com. also on line europe in case tense now as extremely low. temperatures result in transport chaos and flights canceled across the continent. what history is deep the nice. says it is welcome here.

for the truth is. the supernatural cannot rise from nowhere. by the spirit. mistress of the caves. welcome back you're watching are they coming to life from moscow now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world at least here insurgents have been shot at a gun battle with security forces in afghan capital kabul on

a road leading to the parliament building and following a multiple suicide bomb attack at the city's traffic police department witnesses say smoke was seen billowing from the scene one police officer was killed and another injured in the assault the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack the second in less than a week. this comes as a report claims that afghan security forces torture nearly a third of all detainees transferred to their control by u.s. forces according to the u.n. the statement says kabul is operating secret sites for the abuse of prisoners to avoid at an ad. scrutiny and have the full nato of draw all the allegations could hinder plans for a full handover of security responsibilities to afghan forces by twenty fourteen. the ruling coalition of german chancellor angela merkel has been defeated in crucial regional elections with the center where opposition is winning then victory the outcome of the ballot in lower saxony is seen as

a final rehearsal for the parliamentary election in september marco is seeking a third term in office and a spy the stand back still enjoys popularity in the country as the polls. courthouse has been set on fire in the egyptian city of alexandria following day long clashes between riot police and protesters demonstrators were demanding justice in the trial of former security officers accused of killings joining the twenty eleven uprising violence first erupted when the presiding judge abruptly resigned without carrying out his duties. catching a train a became a matter of life and death for one russian man who fell from his carriage in subzero temperatures in a forest in russia's far east earlier artist on barton told my colleague sean thomas the story. if we picture the scene we've got forty two year old valarie mel cough a lorry driver in this train clickety clack in its way through the forests in the

a more region in russia's far east at night they decide to go for a cigarette but nothing special so he goes to the vestibule at the end of the carriage smokes his cigarettes and then as he stays went to open the door to go back to his carriage except it was the wrong door and he falls out the back of the train so he rapidly realizes that he is not just running to catch up with the train but for his very life we managed to talk to him earlier he was a little bit embarrassed about the whole thing when i fell out i only had parents slippers in t. shirt but i ran for seven kilometers i didn't curse minitab and i just saw the train was gone so i came quickly to my senses and started running so that i didn't freeze i ran on the railway track for about twenty or thirty minutes when i go to the nearest station their eyes are camped out after they saw a man with almost no clothes on women there quickly gave me to me and reported what

just happened i didn't tell this to anybody my wife found out about the incident only after journalists called her i would imagine that the phone call he had with his wife after she had found help not from him but from journalists was possibly a little bit strange luckily he's ok no injuries no hypothermia he's back at work there will be an investigation into perhaps the whether the train guard had forgotten to lock the back door of the train which as we can see was a probably quite a big oversight if it turns out that that was what happened it's also possibly one factor that made him run a bit faster was that we've recently reported on in the far east in siberia there's been quite a lot of problems with packs of ravenous wolves being there so i imagine if we had that in mind if you knew about that possibly something to spur him on a bit faster. well as well that as well as they say up next here on earth he will bring our special report on the spread of aids in america.

georgian president mikheil saakashvili is military police have been accused by prosecutors of using a very unusual weapon to control members of the government a weapon so unusual that history great villains would even touch it that weapon was almost sexuality the georgian prosecutor's office claims a network of gay spies was set up to seduce certain politicians in order to surveil them and blackmail them the gay spies would tempt men in the government into going back to their apartments which were filled with hidden cameras and microphones to record information and create a not safe for work video to be used to put pressure on these officials this is truly one of the most unique and kind of gross weapons of political intrigue i've

ever heard of i mean how many men in georgia politics could possibly fall into the spy trap you know if he actually did implement this scheme and it actually worked than machiavelli and von bismarck could have a thing or two to learn from president saakashvili but that's just my opinion. at the start this strange new disease affecting healthy young americans looks like this period between the first outbreak of aids summer nine hundred eighty one and i nine hundred eighty five not only were people coming down was aids and dying and so forth but nobody knew who had it or who difficult now more than thirty years since

its arrival the face of aids looks like this but the social stigma of this disease lingers persons get educated who but in the back of their mind eight times he may still be a little dirty secret the biggest part of this little secret is its growth across black america as other nations got to hold in the african-american community it's it's it's is right here and that's spreading out that way despite in the african-american community a collective silence has enabled it to spread across gender and sexual orientation african-americans tend to have sex with african-americans it's black men and black men usually it's black men and black women usually spreading death among ourselves.

both black men down and women are at much greater risk of getting age i.v. compared to their white counterparts youth as well as adults. we began our investigation by looking at men who account for seventy percent of all new infections among blacks but what was surprising is that it's not just men who have sex with men who need to be concerned about hiv. so. i did everything possible to get in this position you know i wanted you know the we had to have my life was famous and free so i pretty much got what i was looking for if i'm not mistaken with him p. he communed sneak in.